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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

MS Office is increasingly only sold as part of “Microsoft 365” which already involves paying for cloud storage and copilot and the like.

20 seconds of googling gets me the pricing page for their family (which I think is the same as single user personal?) plan which is 130 USD a year for

    For one to six people
    Sign in to five devices at once
    Use on PCs, Macs, phones, and tablets
    Up to 6 TB of secure cloud storage (1 TB per person)
    Productivity apps with Microsoft CopilotFootnote1
    Identity,Footnote2 data, and device security
    Ad-free secure email

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simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I wonder what happens to your documents if you stop paying for office.

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- NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Not sure on the policy for this (and too lazy to read through the TOS) but the usual standard is:
  
  You have read only access to your data in some form for N months. Sometimes individual, sometimes grabbing the whole dump. If you haven’t renewed your license within N months, that data is deleted (but not really).
  
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